Thursday, February 18, 2010

Die Antwoord

Die Antwoord are a South African rave/hip hop group. They are MC Ninja, who has many dodgy tattoos and talks like a tweaked out, gangsta spud from Trainspotting, and Yo-Landi, who looks like a hot alien from a post apocalyptic future. Kind of like tweaker hip hop. Their album is streaming at their website. I can't tell if it's brilliant or godawful, but I'm intrigued at least. They have a video for "The Ninja," but I prefer "ZefSide". High possibility it's all a joke. The production values are too high and they are too over-the-top for them to be the rednecks they claim to be. Maybe a joke, but a funny one.

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I grew up near Santa Cruz and live in San Francisco. The first album I bought was Herbie Hancock's Future Shock. I buy too many albums. I think about music too much. This is an outlet for my musings on everything from punk to hip hop, so my friends don't have to put up with my rambling.

I am a regular contributor to RapReviews. I used to write for Blogcritics.org. My work has appeared in print in the now-defunct Clamor magazine.